Rational Asset Analyzer
Features and benefits
Today's business climate challenges companies to be agile, that is to adapt to changes in market conditions in time to make a difference. For the application development teams, this translates to delivering changes and enhancements in much shorter time frames, often days rather than months, and do this with less cost, less business risk and fewer skills.
The ratio of available skills and detailed application knowledge about the application inventory changes as teams shrink leaving fewer people to deal with the growing diversity and complexity of company's business application solution. The ability to capture and work with knowledge about application structure, embedded business rules, relationships, control flows and interdependencies with the databases, transactions and batch jobs becomes crucial.
The IBM Rational Asset Analyzer provides the knowledge that can empower application development teams to work more effectively and productively. IBM Rational Asset Analyzer lets teams capture, maintain, and take advantage of application knowledge using a repository accessible to people via web and Eclipse interfaces and to programming via a RESTful interface.
For IBM System z™ and distributed environments, Rational Asset Analyzer provides information about application code and the components that connect that code enabling more effective maintenance and reuse. With this product, you can more effectively understand, build and deploy composite applications — applications that include mainframe and web-based components. Rational Asset Analyzer is an essential tool for development teams focused on efficiency, productivity and on time delivery.
Feature | Benefit |
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Scans mainframe and distributed software assets on Microsoft® Windows systems to determine an entire chain of dependencies across the applications in your enterprise -- more than by searching for textual strings in your source code, storing the information in an IBM DB2® repository that resides on the system | Helps analysts, developers, architects, and operations teams cut through the complexity of their applications and interdependencies to work faster and with better quality |
Identify,capture and export ILOG compliant business rules using an imported or client defined business term vocabulary | Be able to identify what decisions are being made using which rules and where in the source and/or data those rules reside to quickly adapt the rules that govern business decisions to changes in the marketplace. |
List or view: • Batch jobs that use a program or an IMS program specification control block (PSB) • COPY files, INCLUDE files, data elements, and data sets used by a program • Entry points with a matching name pattern • Programs that call or are called by a particular program • Run units or transactions that include a particular program • Control flow and high-level structure of a program • Dead code in a COBOL program • Source code for a program • Source needed to build a run unit • Calling hierarchy for a run unit • CICS programs • PCBs defined for a PSB • Batch jobs, transactions, or programs that use a data set • Programs that use an IBM DB2® column, table, or stored procedure • Diagram of the assets that make up an application |
Helps you find interrelationships among components in seconds and viewing these relationships at a detailed or aggregate level |
Scans Java™ source code and bytecode, including JAR, WAR, and EAR files, and employs more than 40 Java EE and distributed scanners as well as patented pattern matching technology | Helps you understand and manage change in your existing Java EE legacy application inventory |
Identify application dependencies at multiple levels, including jobs and transactions; files and databases; programs and applications written in COBOL, PL/I, Java EE, and various distributed text formats including HTML and XML; and composite applications that span mainframe and distributed systems | By understanding your applications at a semantic level, development teams can make changes with more confidence, greater speed, and less risk |
Interactive, Web browser-based access | View a wealth of information about application assets at a glance with the ability to drill down to the desired level of detail. Understand structure and control flow of programs through integrated visualization |
Access through a RESTful interface | Programmatic integration of application knowledge into other reporting and analysis tools such as Rational Insight and Focal Point. |
Custom query facility, group bookmarks, and configuration of displayable metrics and statistics | Application customization to meet your unique requirements |
Eclipse plug-in for Rational Developer for System z connecting the developer to local and remote RAA repositories. Scans source files from local & remote workspace IDE projects into a local RAA repository. | Helping reduce developer's time needed to understand impact and make the changes in complex applications by integrating understanding with the IDE; Enabling developers to understand heterogeneous artifacts in projects or across the whole enterprise |
The ability to scan for symbols in any type of file scanned with the Rational Asset Analyzer symbol scanner, incorporating the results into the Rational Asset Analyzer repository and including the information in the analysis and inquiry facilities. | Integrates information from beyond the source code to allow for a more comprehensive analysis |
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